Retiring teachers at GBHS

Inside history teacher, Mike Valentine’s classroom, walls are lined with posters, maps and memorabilia. His iconic golf clubs sit over in the corner and other little trinkets including Lenin-Grade sodas, a Marie Antionette doll and a mini guillotine atop the cabinet. Over the years, the items have collected special memories from his first year teaching AP Euro in 2004. What made you decide to become a teacher? �...

Arriving at the door of classroom 512, music greets your ears courtesy of Stephens’s new playlist for each day. Walls are covered in all kinds of artwork from his students.  What made you decide to become a teacher? “Both my parents were teachers. My mom taught second grade and guitar in junior high. My dad was an art teacher. And my grandmother, on my mom’s side, was also an elementar...